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Original post by SshadoNow, I have a question. When you come up with a game design and fill out the template looking for a team, how do you stop someone else from stealing the idea? How much information do you reveal?

99.9% of the time, nobody is going to bother stealing your idea. Personal game ideas -- no matter how cool they sound to you personally -- don't appeal as much to the reader. Even if they DO try to steal it, the odds of them completing a game identical to yours is minimal. Two people implementing the 'same game' will still both result in vastly different experiences.

I honestly would not worry about it. I intend on putting up my whole design document on the internet for scrutinization, with zero fear of someone stealing my project. [smile]

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Still, you can always protect yourself by only identifying the basic components of the game ("it's an action game") with perhaps some tantalizing elements ("where you steal cars in 18th century Greece") and a couple of mock-up screenshots.